A methodology to study noise annoyance and to perform Action Plans follow up using as input an existing survey and noise map: Application to the city of Málaga (Spain)

A virtual perception method for urban noise: The calculation of noise annoyance threshold and facial emotion expression in the virtual noise scene

“…Noise perception and noise map are indispensable to improve the urban sound environment quality [27]. Noise mapping has been shown to be an efficient way of assessing environment noise [34].…”

“…In addition, the European Directive requires performing noise maps to help locate which urban areas are exposed to unacceptable noise levels, and to determine the percentage of the population who is affected by excessive noise levels. Together with noise maps, the Directive requires performing a psychosocial report on noise annoyance [25][26][27]. However, little attention has been paid to the noise perception with facial emotion expression in the virtual noise scene.…”

Acoustic evaluation of leisure events in two mediterranean cities

“…However, there are no studies which deal with this kind of noise from the environmental noise point of view that takes into account the fact that not only the users, but also the neighbours suffer from high noise levels during some leisure activities, since they are sometimes exposed to noise levels higher than the level of acoustic quality objectives and could suffer health effects [15].…”

Analysis of the prediction capacity of a categorization method for urban noise assessment

“…In particular, aspects related to the objective evaluation of noise in general, and road traffic noise annoyance in particular, in our towns continue to be of great importance, as can be inferred from the different studies that have been carried out in both developed and developing countries [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18].…”